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Hello Lego Space Fans, I've uploaded a 3 minute stop motion movie that I made way back in '85, using some of the early space sets and minifigs... You can check it out at: (URL) "animation". Those good 'ol space sets sure bring back memories... :) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Lego Space Animation from the early 80's
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(...) Wow! I love it!! :) It looks great, and the music and sound is subperb! *rave* Richard (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Lego Space Animation from the early 80's
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(...) More than you know! A friend of mine (Daniel Patrick Curtis III, are you out there???) made a test liftoff super-8 movie, using the same ship model... the classic 487 Space Cruiser! I had a bag of Polyfil that I used to simulate the exhaust. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Lego Space Animation from the early 80's
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(...) Thanks Richard! I'm glad you enjoyed it... :) Marc (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thank you for your kind words. Yeah, I HAD to be patient. There were times (more than once) where I was in the middle of a shot that I had been working on for a few hours and I'd accidentally bump the camera -- so had started the shot over. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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I love the movie! It looks like real people and objects, because there is always something going on in the background, and they move all the time. The music is great, it sounds like a computer game tune. Hey, you could make a computer game with this (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Tobias, Thanks for your kind words. As it turns out, I worked at Digital Domain (visual effects house that worked on "Titanic") on a Lego computer game for several months... Marc (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Hey Marc.. thx for sharing that. That was neat. Definitely worth the download time at 42.6. I wish the one I had made back in the 80's turned out as well as yours did, but what my friend and I knew about lighting back then, you could have (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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